Rustless buckle



c. M. WEBB RUSTLESS BUCKLE Abra 21, 1925.

Fil d -Nov. 5. 1925 Patented Apr. 21, 19235..

CHARLES M. "WEBB, OF "WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO WATERBURY BUCKLE 60., DE VTATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION.

BUSTLES$ BUCKLE.

Application filed November 5, 1923.

To all 107mm- 2'25 may concern.

Be it known that'l, CHARLES M. rina, a citizen of the United States, residing at Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in llustless Buckles; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the characters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application, and represent in Fig. 1 a view in front elevation of a rustless buckle constructed in accordance with my invention, shown as applied to a piece of webbing.

Fig. 2 an edge view thereof.

Fig. 3 a sectional view on the line 3-43 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 a view of the buckle-frame in front ele 'ation on an enlarged scale.

Fig. 5 an edge view thereof.

.liy invention relates to an improvement in rustless buckles of the type shown and described in United States Patent- No. Sal-7,811, granted March 19, 1907, on the. application of Morris Feller, the object of my present invention being to produce a wireframe buckle in which the wire of the fran'ie is bent to grip the fixed end of the webbing, whereby an economy of time, labor and webbing is effected, the sewing of the webbingto fasten it to the buckle being eliminated.

lVith these ends in view. my invention consists in a wireframe rustless buckle having certain details of construction as will be hereinafter described aud pointed out in the claim.

[is herein shown, I employ a lnickle-frame made by bending a single piece of wire to form a continuous lower bar 6, the respective ends of which are bent downward, then inward, under the said bar, until they nearly meet, and then downward and outward to form two complementary, web-gripping loops extending nearly to the center of the buckle, and respectively comprising upper reaches 7 and lower reaches 8, these loops being located in the vertical plane of the lower bar 6, from which they are separated by a narrow, web-receiving opening 9. The

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outer ends of the lower. reaches 8 of the said loops are bent upward to form the side-bars 10 of the buckle-frame and then inward to produce aligned pintlc-ends 11, virtually forming the upper bar thereof. As shown, the side-bars 10 are bent forwardly at a point slightly above the lower bar (3, whereby the pintle ends 11 are located in a plane in front of the plane of the lower bar 6, and the web-gripping loops below the same. Upon the. pintle-ends 11 I mount a standard, sheetanetal lnickle-levcr. having a fingen piece 12, a gripping-edge 13, and hingetingers 1a, which latter are wrapped around the pintle-ends, whereby the lever is pivotally mounted upon the same.

In webbing my improved buckle, what is to become the fixed end 15 of the webbing 1G is passed from front to rear, through the. narrow opening 9 located between the lower bar (3 of the buckle-frame and the upper reaches 7 of the web-gripping loops thereof. The said bar and loops are now subjected to edgewise pressure, whereby they are forced together, so as to measurably close the opening 9 and so firmly pinch the end 15 of the webbing and grip it between the bar 6 and reaches 7, as clearly shown in Fig. 3. The webbing is now passed from front to rear, over the lower bar 6 of the frame, through the webbing-opening 1'7 thereof, so as to form a cushioning-bend 18 in it, after which it is passed downward and upward to form the ordinary loop and then from front to rear, over the bond 18 and through the said opening 17 and under the edge 13 of the buckle-lever, which is positioned to deflect the webbing from front to rear, over the lower bar 6 of the buckleframe and over the bend 18 of webbing, in the manner shown and described in the. said. Poller patent.

I claim:

A rustless buckle having a one-piece wireframe bent to form a continuous lower bar, two web-gripping loops extending toward each other under the said lower bar in the vertical plane thereof and separated therofrom by a narrow web-receiving openiinr, two upstanding side-bars merging into the lower reaches of the said loops, and two pintle-cnds bent inward from the upper ends of the said side-bars; of u buckle-lever pivot- In testimony whereof, I have signed this ally mounted upon the smd plntle-ends 111 speolfieatlon 111 the presence of two subsm'lhposltlon to have lts guppmg-edge deflect the 111g WltDGSSGS.

lllllllil lg' portion of the Webbing substan- GHARLES M. WEBB. tially over the said lower bar, thesaid open- Witnesses: ing being closed to grip the fixed end of MAIgTIN T. LYNN,

the Webbing. CHESTER LITTLE. 

